US289615A - Washing-iviachine - Google Patents

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(No Model.) E. .W. BUSH.

WASHING MASEINE. No. 289,615 Patented Dec. 4, 1883'.

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WASHING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 289,615, datedDecember 4, 1888.

Application filed April 27, 1883.

To all whom it may concern:

Beitknown that I, EDWARD WALTER BUsn, of Armstrong, in the county of Howard and State of Missouri, have invented a new and Improved Washing-Machine, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. The object of the invention is to produce such combinations of parts as will facilitate the application of rubbing devices to an ordinary wash-tub. This combination will first be described in connection with the drawings, and all else which is necessary to a full understanding of the invention, and then pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate cor- 'responding parts in all the figures.

Figurelis a cross-sectional elevation of my improved washing-machine. Fig. 2 is asectional plan view of the same on the line as m, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail elevation and sectional view of the device for holding the false bottom in the tub.

On the upper surface of the bottom A of a wash-tub, B, of the usual construction, two cleats, G, are fastened, under the projecting parts of which the rabbeted end of a crossbar, D, of a frame, D, can be passed, which frame is to rest on the bottom of the tub, and is held in place by the cleats. On the frame D a false bottom, E, is fastened, which fits closely in the tub, and is provided on its upper surface with a series of radial ribs or ridges, F, of different lengths. Between the ridges the false bottom E is provided with numerous apertures, G. On the middle of the false bottom E an upwardly-proj ecting rod, H, is fastened, the upper end of which passes loosely through an eye, J, formed at the upper united ends of two braces, K, provided at their lower ends with forks K, adapted to be passed on the upper edge of the tub. The upper end of the rod is thus held so that it will always remain vertical. A sleeve, L, surrounding the rod H, is formed on the upper united ends of two arms, M, having their lower ends secured to the upper surface of a revolving disk, N, fitting in the tub, and provided on its under surface with radial ridges F, like the ridges F of false bottom E.

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disk N is provided with numerous apertures, G. The rod H is provided with a longitudinal feather or spline, P, and the collar or sleeve L, and a washer, Q, on the upper surface of the disk N, and the disk are provided with vertical grooves B, through which the said spline can pass. The collar or sleeve L is provided with a handle, S. On the inner side of the tub latches T are pivoted, which can be passed into recesses in the edges of the false bottom to lock the same in place and prevent the same from turning.

The operation is as follows: The clothes to be washed are spread evenly on the false bottom E, and the disk Nis lowered on the clothes,

the tub is partly filled with water, and the disk N is rocked to and fro in the horizontal plane by means of the handle S, whereby the clothes will be thoroughly rubbed and washed. The dirt washed from the clothes passes, with the heavy dirty water, through the apertures Gin the false bottom E, and collects in the bottom A below the false bottom, and cannot again mix with the water, so that the suds will be cleaned forreceiv'ing the next tub-full of clothes.

The disk N'is held on the clothes by turning the collar L in such a manner that the spline P can pass up through the groove R in the collar. The upper edge of the collar will then be below the lower end of the spline, and if the collar is turned the'spline prevents it from rising. Caremust be taken not to turn the collar to such an extent that the spline can pass through the groove R. In a like manner the collar can be held above the spline. If the disk N, (the braces K having been previously removed from the tub B and shaft 1?, when the collar L is grasped by the hand, and by pulling upward thereon the said disk, with its adj unctive parts, is lifted out of the tub off the shaft H,) is to be removed, the same and the collar L are'turned until the spline P can pass through the slots R in the collar andin the washer Q.

After the machine has been used, all parts can be easily and rapidly taken from the tub, which can then be cleaned thoroughly.

The confined air can escape through the apertures G in the rubbing-disk, thus allowing the weight of the disk to press more forcibly on the clothes.

I am aware that ribbed rubbers-one roek- I tom, E, having a central rod, H, with spline ing or rotary and the other stationaryare P, and a rocking rubber having the collar L, very old in washing-machines; also, that they with groove R, whereby the rocking rubber have been perforated, and the lower one made may be held at the desired distance above the 5 to form a false bottom elevated above the true stationary one, as described.

bottom of the tub but What I do claim as new and of my inven- EDWARD BUSH tion is Witnesses:

In awashing-maehine, the combination, with J osEPH B. FUGATE,

10 a wash-tub, of a stationary rubber or false b0t- J. 'I. HUME.

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